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...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Index down -0.18% at 1,005 Americas DJIA down -0.13% at 13,579 S&P 500 down -0.01% at 1,460 Bovespa down -0.60% at 61,320 Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.65% at 9,050 Topix down -0.35% at 753.74 Hang Seng up...
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...at 1,087 Americas DJIA up +0.16% at 13,118 S&P 500 up +0.23% at 1,394 Bovespa up +1.90% at 58,345 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.88% at 8,803 Topix up +1.08% at 743.70 Hang Seng up +0.37% at 20,073 Shanghai Composite...
...Monday with the publication of inflation figures showing a jump to 7.23 per cent in April from a year earlier, well above expectations and reversing the downward trend of recent months, reports beyondbrics...
...talks since Kim died A U.S. delegation will meet with North Korea over its nuclear program on Feb. 23 in Beijing in the first such talks since the death of dictator Kim Jong Il and the succession of his...
...uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the FT reports....
...his 33-year rule before leaving Yemen for the United States on Sunday, paving the way for a transfer of power after a year of unrest, Reuters reports. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/22/us-yemen-idUSTRE80L0AS20120122...
...will seek United Nations Security Council endorsement for a plan to peacefully end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pave the way for a democratically elected government within six months,...
...Mass anti-Assad protest in Homs as monitors visit Tens of thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets in the flashpoint city of Homs to rally against President Bashar al-Assad and plead for newly-arrived...
...President Bashar al-Assad out of power deepened a split between Syrians on the most viable way out of their country’s nearly yearlong bloody conflict, with neither international pressure nor domestic overhauls...
...countries and oil-rich Gulf states of hatching a plot to implement a “Libyan scenario” in Syria and bring down the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/273d7bde-3d44-11e1...
...DJIA down -1.13% at 11,771 S&P 500 down -1.68% at 1,216 Bovespa unchanged 0.00% at 56,989 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.23% at 8,375 Topix down -1.06% at 719.98 Hang Seng down -1.73% at 18,491 Shanghai Composite...
...As of 04.40am GMT, the MSCI Asia Pacific excluding Japan index sank 0.8% to 460.91. S&P500 Index futures lost 0.3%. Oil gained as much as 1.2% in New York....
...+1.61% at 865.55 Hang Seng down -1.26% at 23,336 Shanghai Composite down -0.95% at 2,904 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -1.26% at 581.65 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.41% at 5,542 Currencies €/$ 1.48 (1.48) $/¥...
...Nasdaq up +2.28 (+0.09%) at 2,460 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +6.76 (+0.62%) at 1,093 FTSE100 up +28.93 (+0.50%) at 5,758 CAC 40 up +50.12 (+1.31%) at 3,878 Dax up +86.46 (+1.33%) at 6,611 Currencies...
...DJIA up 0.00% at 12,808 S&P 500 down -0.34% at 1,357 Bovespa down -1.75% at 64,318 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.57% at 10,004 Topix up +1.61% at 865.55 Hang Seng down -1.35% at 23,315 Shanghai Composite down...
...complaint against Trevor Cook, Pat Kiley et al....
...The overall losses in Europe follow heavy falls in Asia. Exporters in Tokyo were lower as the relative safe-haven appeal of the yen boosted the currency against the dollar....
...In Singapore, the Straits Times Index was 0.3 per cent lower late in the afternoon session at 2,353.23 and the Stock Exchange of Thailand index was 0.6 per cent lower late in the afternoon session at 597.82...
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